AN EYEWITNESS has described how a huge black triangle hung in the air above her home for a few fleeting moments just weeks after a UFO slowed traffic to a snail's pace on the Silver Jubilee Bridge.

John Rossiter, a resident of Wood Street, Widnes, claims he was sweeping his front garden at around 9.30pm on Tuesday, April 3, when he looked up into the darkening sky to see a unidentified object hover for about two seconds over fields near his home, before zooming off at high speed towards the bridge. He said the object had three red lights along each edge.

Mr Rossiter does not believe the flying machine was a product of extra terrestrial technology but has suggested it was an experimental aircraft being tested by the military.

Whatever its origin, the same strange vehicle has been putting the wind up residents in Runcorn and Widnes since New Year.

On April 5, just three days after the Mr Rossiter's sighting, the Weekly News focused on alleged UFO activity over the Runcorn to Widnes bridge.

A Northwich researcher claimed a triangular object identical to the one seen by Mr Rossiter was chased by RAF jets. He claimed the alleged incident was just one of a spate of sightings in the Halton area since January.

The article prompted other local witnesses to tell their tale including a Runcorn woman who had a brush with a UFO on Old Moore Lane in the 1960s.

Mr Rossiter said: 'I saw it on the Tuesday while I was brushing up my front path. It was triangular shaped but I am not saying it was a space machine. I saw it about 9.30pm so it was dark but not totally pitch black.

'It had red lights, three on each side, six in total and it flew away in the direction of Halton bridge 'I was slightly afraid it seemed big like a low flying aircraft.

'If it is an experimental aircraft then I want to know what it was doing in Widnes. The Government shouldn't be testing things like that out over built-up areas. I'd say they were definitely testing something.

'It is as though someone wants people to see these things I can't understand it.

'When I was 13-years-old I saw a UFO while playing. That was along time ago, but this latest sighting is fresh in my mind.

'People don't want these things flying around near their homes. Something should be done. They ought to be gotten rid of.

'I don't believe in little green men. I think these things are mostly what the Government is up to.'